COMBINING MEDIA

Robert Rauschenberg

•American (1925-2008)

Interested in the iconography of American popular culture.

Emotional style of the Abstract Expressionists.

"Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations.

Canyon, 1959

Untitled 1963Stop, 1963

A series of work

Retroactive I, 1964, Oil and silkscreen ink on canvas

Kennedy 195, Oil and silkscreen ink on canvas

Romare Beardon 1911-1988 (African-American

Collages depicting the richness and texture of African-American.

colors and compositions and themes of everyday life, family, and religion,.

Depict a period of social change.

Unlike previous masters of the collage form who used images in their original size, Bearden created small collages and then used photography to enlarge them.

Romare Bearden, Patchwork Quilt, cut-and-pasted cloth and paper with synthetic polymer paint on composition board, 1970, Museum of Modern Art

Romare Beardon Reviewers said 'propagandistic in the best sense.'

Bearden's collages, and later collage-paintings, also provided African-Americans with emotionally powerful images and experiences that came from within their own culture and were like nothing ever seen before.

Bearden's work is an example of the way in which artworks can move beyond art to become a force for positive social change.

Romare Bearden, The Calabash, collage, 1970, Library of Congress

Romare Bearden, Pittsburgh Memories, 1984collage on board28 5/8 x W: 23 1/2 inches (H: 73 x W: 60 cm)The Carnegie Museum of Art,

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